Discuss - Ep #0139

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Robservations #139

[DarkLady]

Wow, so nobody wants to say anything about this lonely little episode? Even though Roger threatens Burke at gun- or rifle-point?

Once again, David has the Laura nightmare. When his father threatens him with a thrashing, he flies to the hated Miss Winters's arms.

Vicki does a very neat job of making David's bed--but she had lots of practice at the foundling home.

[alwaysdavid]

The hatred that Roger feels when he says stay away from his wife!  I
T makes one wonder if Roger was jealous of Burke and Laura long before the accident and it worked out as away to get what Burke had.  Roger brings up that he is suspicious that David is Burkes child.
David fears Laura and Vickie and Laura plot to get them together on Widows Hill David naturally wonders how many died there and when the dreaded Mom arrives it literally sends him over the edge.

[Lydia]

Gosh, what an old fashioned scene Roger threw with Burke and Laura in the cottage!  Were we supposed to think less of Roger because he didn't have the guts to shoot Burke?  He made an ass of himself, but I prefer a guy who, on second thought, decides not to shoot after all.  But if Roger had shot and killed Burke, what would Laura have done?  I'm figuring she would have told the sheriff that she had nothing to do with it and that it was essential for David's well-being that she take him far, far away from a place that now had such traumatic associations for him.

Vicky says David is a typical boy.  Um...really?

[MagnusTrask]

I don't suppose that they really expected viewers to think less of Roger for not shooting, really, though it's possible.   The pathetic thing for me was the vehement threat repeated over and over, without any thought for how ridiculous it is, when you should know you can't possibly follow through on it.   It was as if for Roger, the bluster substituted for acting.   I don't know if DS's makers agreed with me.

Apparently Burke's image of Roger is now of someone who would never have the nerve to kill intentionally.   We're not supposed to respect murder of course, but choosing your actions carefully and wisely, and then acting on them even when difficult, and then standing behind those actions afterward and facing the consequences is, in a general sense, admirable.   Roger was showing he was incapable of any of this.